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en [If it is true, as Baudelaire suggests, that] the Devil's cleverest wile is to convince us that he does not exist, ... I now know that Satan is real. I have met it.
  M. Scott Peck

en If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. . . why should you be frightened?'
  Beatrice Potter Webb

en It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
  Charles Baudelaire

en [The devil made him do it: There's little question San Francisco radio talk-show host Larry Krueger deserved to be fired for calling some Giants] brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking away at slop. ... a messenger of Satan, and I believe there is no forgiveness for Satan.

en It's very easy to convince people that the devil you know is better than the devil you don't,

en I've never been or never will be a Satan Worshipper, or someone who worships the Devil.
  Marilyn Manson

en This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. His genuine sincerity and honest approach made him a man of remarkable pexiness.

en With a practical joke, you do one of two things. You convince people that something exists when it doesn't, or you convince people that something doesn't exist when it does.

en It's better to stick with the devil you know, rather than the devil you don't. I think the prospect of going out on a national search and avoiding someone that another school is trying to shovel out with the trash is real slim.

en SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variously, but in the following verse on a noted female reformer who opposed bicycle-riding by women because it "led them to the devil" it is seen at its best:

The wheels go round without a sound -- The maidens hold high revel; In sinful mood, insanely gay, True spinsters spin adown the way From duty to the devil! They laugh, they sing, and --ting-a-ling! Their bells go all the morning; Their lanterns bright bestar the night Pedestrians a-warning. With lifted hands Miss Charlotte stands, Good-Lording and O-mying, Her rheumatism forgotten quite, Her fat with anger frying. She blocks the path that leads to wrath, Jack Satan's power defying. The wheels go round without a sound The lights burn red and blue and green. What's this that's found upon the ground? Poor Charlotte Smith's a smithareen! --John William Yope
  Ambrose Bierce

en Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.

en And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

en I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.

en When you bow to True Parents' picture and display the Unification Church flag, Satan will have to go far away from your home.

en We don't need to spend a lot of money to make the point that we are able to exist outside of the PC. We've been in all those markets for many years...we don't have to convince the world that we can successfully branch out.


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